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Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bette Midler quote: "If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my..."
If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier. Bette Midler
Oh, this coming back to an empty house,' Rupert thought, when he had seen her safely up to her door. People - though perhaps it was only women - seemed to make so much of it. As if life itself were not as empty as the house one was coming back to. Barbara Pym
I have often wished in vain,' said she, 'for another's judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely trust the direction of my own eye and head, they having been so long occupied with the contemplation of a single object as to become almost incapable of forming a proper idea respecting it.''That,' replied I, 'is only one of many evils to which a solitary life exposes us. Anne Bronte
Nicholas Sparks quote: "Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them,..."
Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary. Nicholas Sparks
Mr. Crossley suddenly wondered why he was why he was worrying about the note. It was only a joke, after all. He cleared his throat. Everyone looked up hopefully. 'Somebody,' said Mr. Crossley, 'seems to have sent me a Halloween message.' And he read out the note: 'SOMEONE IN THIS CLASS IS A WITCH.' 6B thought this was splendid news. Hands shot up all over the room like a bed of beansprouts. 'It's me, Mr. Crossley!' 'Mr. Crossley, I'm the witch!' 'Can I be the witch, Mr. Crossley?' 'Me, Mr.... Diana Wynne Jones
She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?' 'I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for. Terry Prachett
It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete highway painful to behold and turns every distant reflective surface into a little glint of flame. Do you know how sometimes on very fine days the sun will shine with a particular intensity that makes the most mundane objects in the landscape glow with an unusual radiance, so that buildings and structures you normally pass without a glance suddenly become arresting,... Bill Bryson
World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor—it requires only that they live together in mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement. And history teaches us that enmities between nations, as between individuals, do not last forever . . . John F. Kennedy
Mahatma Gandhi quote: "An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi
Mindy Kaling quote: "I really think guys only need two pairs of shoes. A nice pair..."
I really think guys only need two pairs of shoes. A nice pair of black shoes and a pair of Chuck Taylors. Mindy Kaling
Francis Bacon quote: "The only really interesting thing iswhat happens between two..."
The only really interesting thing iswhat happens between two people in a room. Francis Bacon
At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation. George Orwell
William Makepeace Thackeray quote: "Money has only a different value in the eyes of each."
Money has only a different value in the eyes of each. William Makepeace Thackeray
The one-eyed man watched them go, and then he went through the iron shed to his shack behind. It was dark inside. He felt his way to the mattress on the floor, and he stretched out and cried in his bed, and the cars whizzing by on the highway only strengthened the walls of his loneliness. John Steinbeck

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